expression:

• with steady steps; with one's feet planted on the ground

noun:

• the 10 precepts ［十戒］ - Buddhism term
• Ten Commandments; Decalogue; Decalog

expression / ichidan verb:

• to persuade someone to accept the inevitable

noun:

• rice cooked with matsutake ➜ 松茸御飯

noun:

• person in his or her prime; man in his prime; woman in her prime

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• greatest hero (mastermind) of the age

noun:

• the mind's eye

noun:

• outing in spring

~の noun:

• covered with weeds

noun:

• love-in

expression:

• with set eyes

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• person with an itobin hairstyle ➜ 糸鬢

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• common redshank (Tringa totanus)

noun:

• feeling of the impending dissolution of parliament

noun:

• common Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) - obscure term ➜ 米松

noun:

• clearing of the river water

noun:

• guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period) ➜ 武家造

noun:

• the shogunate (administration)

noun:

• direct examination

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

expression:

• when kids get in a fight, their parents come to their aid; yelping curs will raise mastiffs - proverb